[X-Unix] Apache & ifconfig

[Pedro fp]

G'day Folks

Thanks for replies so far. A few bits about what I'm up to ...

I'm very much a learner with Apache, that's why I'm working my way 
through ATDG & some of what I do may be due to ignorance.

The setup I'm trying to create a testing server only. It will never be 
accessed from outside my LAN & seldom from any computer but the Mac it 
resides on. For other computers on my LAN I understand the need to have 
the appropriate entries in the hosts files of those computers.

Some of the test sites will need SSL. Currently 2 do & it's a realistic 
future consideration for any of the ones in the setup shown in my 
original post. Until I came upon the need for SSL I had all my virtual 
servers on 127.0.0.1 with Apache listening on different ports for each 
one & not bothering with names so I was using localhost:8080, 
localhost:8081 etc. Of course that came unstuck when I first needed to 
setup SSL for one of them. Advice I've taken from a friend who's 
helping with my httpd.conf is that sticking with separate IP addresses 
is the safest, although not necessarily simplest, option for my needs.

I  now have pedro.mars.local on 192.168.18.1 & plowman.mars.local on 
192.168.18.2 both working but when I moved on to the next ones 
[starting with shakti.mars.local on 192.168.18.11] they aren't working 
for me. Pinging them I get "Host is down" by either name or IP address 
& I can't see why given they're so similar to the ones that do work.

On 18/10/2004, at 9:19 PM, Eugene wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:52:37AM +0200, Jakob Peterhänsel wrote:
>
> : The GUI [Off Topic?] way of adding more than one IP to an interface 
> in
> : X, is to select Network Port Configurations in the Show pop-up in
> : Network CP, select en1 and hit Duplicate. Then you can even give it a
> : name like "en1-host2.com" or something...
>
> The GUI method saves the IP aliases into the NetInfo database.  So the
> settings are preserved through restarts.  But using ifconfig manually,
> the settings are lost on restarts and the commands must be re-entered
> every time.

On this I take it I'd configure TCP/IP manually with the IP address 
being that of the virtual server I want using it. However what do I put 
for Subnet Mask, Router, DNS Servers & Search Domains? Can it be done 
through NetInfo Manager? If so how? I'm Googling that as I send this :)

TIA &
Cheers, Pedro :-)

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